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This is my previous blog. Currently i have a new in-Indonesian blog on my own domain name, www.ibnufarid.com titled el-Faradis.

Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Explode your META Tags

I've just realized as BlogChalking wrote that Google and others famous search engines are not using META tags as they meant to be anymore. Instead of simply associating the keywords with our blog when creating its entry on their database, they check the text on the body of our blog and compare it with the keywords. If they are there, so they create the association. If not, the keywords are almost ignored.

Well so, I have to do something for this thing to work properly ;) Below are the keywords on my META tags:
I. Farid Iskandar, Ibnu Farid Iskandar, Farid, Fairkid, Fair_kid, Ginuk, Islam, Glanggang, Bangil, Pasuruan, Malang, STM Telkom, SMK Telkom, Programmer, FKDIA, NU, Pesantren, Pesantren Virtual, Ratelindo, Landas Online, Landas Nimpuna, Online Trading, Jakarta, Jawa Timur, Indonesia, Personal Homepage, Personal Publication, Daily Trail

Sorry, just ignore this post. Thanks a lot to BlogChalking :)

Farmers working on rectangular peppers

Square watermelons have been developed for easier storage in the United Arab Emirates (AP)

Rectangular peppers and courgettes could be on their way after a successful experiment to grow square watermelon and other vegetables for easy storage.

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Toying With Musical Instruments

Beatbugs are hand-held percussion instruments that enable users to create, manipulate, and share rhythmic motifs through a simple interface.Tod Machover's latest musical innovations are a series of newfangled instruments designed to make learning music as easy as one, two, three, four. Read more here!

Monday, July 29, 2002

What Da Ya Want For Nothing? A Rubber Biscuit?

Not content with deleting your mail via Outlook crashes, Microsoft's Hotmail now sends your messages to the bitbucket after a month. Worth paying $20 a year to stop it?

Friday, July 26, 2002

Another quiz, do it for yourself here.

Your Temperament is: Idealist (NF)

All Idealists (NFs) share the following core characteristics:

Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.
Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.
Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials.
Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self--always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are rare, making up no more than 8 to 10 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

Excerpted from Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey Copyrighted © 1998-2002, all rights reserved

I knew this quiz from my friend who one day said to me that he was not too interested in "quizing" himself. And i've guessed that he didn't really mean it. I guess I am now right about it :) Below is my result on Quizes Your Color :

Your Existing Situation
Sensitive; needs esthetic surroundings, or an equally sensitive and understanding partner with whom to share a warm intimacy.

Your Stress Sources
Wishes to be independent, unhampered, and free from any limitation or restriction, other than those which he imposes of himself or by his own choice and decision.

Your Restrained Characteristics
The situation is preventing him from establishing himself, but he feels he must make the best of things as they are.
Distressed by the obstacles with which he is faced and is no mood for any form of activity or for further demands on him. Needs peace and quiet, and the avoidance of anything which might distress him further.

Your Desired Objective
Feels that there is little prospect of achieving his hopes and therefore surrenders himself to a life of sensuous ease, free from any problems.

Your Actual Problem
Seeks security and a position in which he will no longer be troubled by demands being made on him.

Thursday, July 25, 2002

Happy Anniversary, National Awakening Party (PKB)!


HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Ralph Boyce congratulates former president Abdurrahman Wahid, also founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). PKB, the country's fourth largest political party, celebrated its fourth anniversary on Wednesday. (JP/R. Berto Wedhatama)

Thursday, July 18, 2002

What a sweetz blog ;)

Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Here is my Bloggercode
B1 d++ t k++ s+ u f+ i- o x- e+ l c+

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Blogrolling.com: Link Manager for Your Weblog

Thursday, July 11, 2002

Happy Birthday, Arif!
It should be yesterday. And I did message him yesterday. But he didn't seem to be on-line 'til I found today he hasn't reply my message yet. So I thought, writing it here might be a better choice. I knew him eight years ago as he used to be my classmate at high school, and we both have the same interests on computer programming. He finally became my friend, and our friendship is still lasted until now.

Currently, he and I and a few friends of ours are building an Indonesian site named Ensiklo.com, and also developing some web-based applications. You may visit Ensiklo.com if you don't mind. ;)

Happy birthday, Arif! I wish you enjoy a great life and a bright future!

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

blank is beautiful!
It's very funny when everything you could see is just a clickable period in the middle of ocean of white. And when you click it, again you will be brought to just white-page with a clickable small-text "blank is beuatiful!". And (if you have some sense of humour) you'll start smiling when you click it to see the next page :)
See www.blank.org

Tuesday, July 09, 2002

Earth 'will expire by 2050'
Our planet is running out of room and resources. Modern man has plundered so much, a damning report claims this week, that outer space will have to be colonised.

Sunday, July 07, 2002


Rayuan Gombal
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kangen, itu yang kau katakan saat kutelpon
kau bilang hidupmu hampa, kosong,
sepi, setiap detik-detik menungguku menelpon

katamu tiap malam kau memimpikanku
aku mengajakmu berdansa, bercumbu,
bersama mengarungi lautan asmara

katamu engkau akan selalu setia menanti
tak peduli apapun yang 'kan terjadi
tanpaku kau bilang lebih baik mati

aku hanya tersenyum
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copyright(c)2002, by Farid
@Petojo, Sabtu, 06 Juli 2002 17:00 WIB

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The Physics of Time Travel
Scientists tell us it's technically possible. Here's a how-to guide for the ambitious tinkerer. by Michael Moyer

Friday, July 05, 2002

Watch out! A New Imperial Moment Has Arrived

Wednesday, July 03, 2002

Ensiklo
Finally, after take long time, we had launched Ensiklo.com, "Makna Sebuah Hidup". An Indonesian weblog of todays trends, activities, peoples, knowledge and everything wonderful happening on the world.

Tuesday, July 02, 2002

Easy Flag Identifier
You can find a national flag by identifying it through this site visually. Does it have horizontal stripes? Red+White? You'll find some flags includes Indonesia, Monaco, Poland, Singapore, etc.

First Testimony Through Video-Conference?
Yesterday, former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie testified in the Buloggate corruption scandal from Hamburg, Germany, through a video conference. Habibie was testifying during the trial of former minister of trade and industry and one-time chief of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) Rahardi Ramelan in the South Jakarta District Court.

This technological advance, was for the first time being used in the courts here. The equipment for the linkup was provided by SCTV television (and also broadcasted live on SCTV). I thought I was pretty luck because I could see that historical event though only in television.

FIFA's "The Other Final" to Label The Worst on Earth
While Germany and Brazil played the World Cup final in Japan last Sunday, two other teams played The Other Final in Buthan. The national soccer teams of Buthan and Montserrat played to avoid the label of the worst soccer team on Earth.